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    Yolanda Redrup

    Rich List co-editor

    Yolanda Redrup is the co-editor of the AFR Rich List. She previously reported on technology, healthcare and Street Talk. Connect with Yolanda on Twitter. Email Yolanda at yolanda.redrup@afr.com

    Yolanda Redrup

    May

    Financial Review Rich List: Australia’s wealthiest people in 2024.

    Australia’s wealthiest 200 now control $625b

    Technology is back, resources rode a roller coaster and property growth returned, giving Australia’s Rich Listers an 11pc boost to their total fortune.

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    Rich Listers Sam Hupert (pictured) and Anthony Hall’s Pro Medicus has become one of the most highly valued companies on the ASX with a PE multiple of 169.

    The ASX business so good ‘you can’t put a sell on it’

    Analysts say Pro Medicus is one of the world’s most expensive stocks, but also one of the best.

    More than half of the debutants on the 2024 Rich List are already billionaires.

    More than half the 11 new Rich Listers are already billionaires

    Two cryptocurrency giants, an under-the-radar mattress mogul, a former mechanic and an ex-NRL player are among 17 new and returning faces on this year’s Rich List.

    Rich Lister Wes Maas’ three rules for business decisions

    The former NRL player has built a billion-dollar company through hard work and diversification.

    How the Turner women are creating a legacy beyond Flight Centre

    Graham Turner may have turned Flight Centre into a household name, but wife Jude and daughter Jo have a different approach to business.

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    What Rich Listers think about money – and what they teach their kids

    Nine of Australia’s wealthiest people reflect on their journey with money and whether material success leads to a rich life.

    Grant Petty, founder of Blackmagic Designs, cautions that AI is not new, and is currently at the top of a hype cycle.

    AI reshapes Rich Lister business but not their fortunes yet

    Rich Listers are using AI to overhaul graphic design, advance healthcare and improve cybersecurity, but few are investing personally.

    Inside the great Rich List wealth transfer

    Control of vast business empires is passing to a new generation, forcing families to confront the hard questions around succession planning. Of the 200 richest Australians, 45 are over 80 and control $136.1 billion.

    Hari Nair and John Manusu’s Aegros may be a start-up, but the company’s technology ifirst began development in the 1980s.

    Biotech start-up raising $20m pre-IPO amid missed payment claims

    Plasma start-up Aegros has been accused of not paying suppliers and missing payroll, put is still planning on a 2025 IPO.

    April

    Scott Farquhar to step down as Atlassian co-CEO

    After more than two decades at the helm, the co-founder of the Nasdaq-listed software giant departs, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as sole charge.

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    March

    WiseTech CEO Richard White runs the 16th largest listed company in the country.

    How this billionaire is making his staff rich

    The recent surge in WiseTech’s share price means Richard White isn’t the only one making money. Staff are sitting on a $320 million fortune. 

    Australia’s 75 richest women now control more than $151b

    The wealth of Australia’s richest 75 women soared by 30 per cent over the past year, as entrepreneurs in resources, tech, property and fashion enjoyed the fruits of a resurgent market.

    From left: Verity Tuck, Kristy Chong, Ada Guan, Shelley Sullivan, Anna Lahey.

    Meet the next wave of self-made women

    A group of emerging female founders are positioned to grow their wealth substantially in the next decade.

    Gina Rinehart says the 22 per cent gender pay gap at her Hancock Prospecting is the temporary result of helping women enter the mining industry.

    Rinehart blames Hancock pay gap on ‘helping women’ into mining

    A 22 per cent gender pay gap at Hancock, versus a 15 per cent for all miners, is the temporary result of getting more women into the industry, Gina Rinehart says.

    September 2023

    CSL’s head of research and development Bill Mezzanotte says Hemgenix is life-changing for haemophilia b patients.

    CSL cracks the genetic code of haemophilia B treatment

    When CSL launched its innovative haemophilia B treatment Hemgenix, patients cried.

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    May 2023

    Thomas, Nicholas and George Barlas all work for CSL, with the young men following in their father’s footsteps to embark on careers at the biotech company.

    The three things CSL’s new CEO now has to get right

    Blood Money | After Paul Perreault grew CSL revenue by $US5 billion and profit by $US1 billion, the pressure is on new CEO Paul McKenzie to keep up the growth.

    Paul Perreault (left) took over from Brian McNamee as CSL chief executive in 2013.

    How CSL became Australia’s third-largest company

    Blood Money | Under Paul Perreault, CSL became one of the biggest companies in the country, but even in 2010 its Melbourne offices still looked like something out of the 1960s.

    CSL manufacturing facilities were used for Astrazeneca vaccines, and had been proposed to develop the UQ vaccine.

    The COVID-19 jackpot that eluded CSL

    CEO Paul Perreault faced a dilemma amid the rush to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus – one that resulted in the biggest disappointment of his career there.

    How CSL went from ‘bloated bureaucracy’ to $145b global behemoth

    Blood Money | When Brian McNamee took on the top job at Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the government-run entity was barely worth the land it was built on.

    April 2023

    Hari Nair and John Manusu’s Aegros may be a start-up, but the company’s technology is based on more than 37 years of work.

    Blood pressure rises at Aegros, the next plasma hopeful

    Eight years before CSL hit the ASX, another biotech made its way to the bourse. The trajectories of these two companies could not be more different.